Fixing Wrong USB Devices in Windows 7

If you experience issues with a USB device not being recognized under Windows 7, there might be a simple solution to solve this. For example the MSI USB 2.0 All IN 1 Card Reader aka MSI StarReader is recognized as eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR) using Windows 7. The device works great using Windows Vista or even the Windows 7 pre-release versions. Unfortunately, with the final Windows 7 the device just won’t work.

A quick look into the Device Manager will show that the device is recognized as eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR). When connecting the first time Windows 7 won’t give any notice that the installation of the driver failed or that the device is not ready to use. It will simply not work.

This article addressed that very important information that they make to the knowledge society. Took me time to read all the comments, but I really enjoyed the article. It proved to be Very helpful to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It’s always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained! I’m sure you had fun writing this article.

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! I bought a new 66-in-1 card reader for my Dell mini 10 netbook running Win 7 Pro… and was really annoyed to find it worked perfectly on my Vista Desktop computer, but not my little laptop! I am quite computer literate, and even I couldn’t figure out how to fix it without this article… and now it works 😀